A cute little White Bunny, Angel Bunny is Fluttershy's main animal companion. Not only does Angel help Fluttershy with tasks but he also makes attempts to bring the Pegasus out of her shell. Although adorable, Angel can be quite direct when interacting with others and if he doesn't like you, he will let you know, as Spike soon discovers when given the task of looking after him.

Breakout Character: Compared to the other animal companions, Angel gets far more screentime and appears in many more episodes than they do, and has a bit more of a character beyond "Fluttershy's token pet".

Butt Monkey: Discord really gave him hell in "Keep Calm and Flutter On".

Comic Roleplay: Roleplays as a coach like Rainbow Dash during a training montage from Fluttershy, even wearing a similar hat and whistle.

A Day in the Limelight: In issue 23 of the main comic series, he leads the other pets on a mission to stop a creature who's hypnotized all of Ponyville to destroy their dam.

Death Glare: Gives one to the Cutie Mark Crusaders when their Gabby Gums article makes Fluttershy cry.

Fluffy the Terrible: Just because his given name is "Angel", doesn't means that he won't be a mean rabbit.

The Friend Nobody Likes: The Pet Nobody Likes — even the other animal companions seem to dislike his bad attitude. Receiving a group Death Glare from the other pets for his bratty behavior is one thing, but being able to make Gummy, the emotionless alligator, join in on the Death Glare is another thing entirely.

Implied Death Threat: Receives a non-verbal one from Owlowiscious after he promises to cause trouble for Spike. He's rightfully intimidated, since bunnies are typically prey for owls.

Ironic Name: Compare his name to his actual behavior, and see how angelic he really is.

Jerkass Has a Point: In "Just For Sidekicks", Spike realizes this when he's called out by Angel on the train because Spike was more concerned about getting gems than he was about his duty to take care of Angel and the other pets. Spike apologizes for this and Angel cuts him some slack.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Seems to average about here; for all his attitude, he does seem to genuinely care about Fluttershy, and sometimes his attitude compensates for her lack of it.

The Lancer: As shown in "A Bird in the Hoof" and "The Ticket Master", he acts like a secretary/nanny for Fluttershy in a Shout-Out to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He also takes on the role of a coach to Fluttershy in "Hurricane Fluttershy" to help her train for the hurricane.

Loyal Animal Companion: Normally accompanies Fluttershy in her daily duties as shown in "The Ticket Master" where he prepares a salad and in "Dragonshy" and "Winter Wrap Up" where he helps Fluttershy care for the animals. He's at his most loyal in "Hurricane Fluttershy", when he comforts her when she's distraught.

Meaningful Name: Given the "role" he (usually) plays in Fluttershy's life (a conscience or "guardian angel"), his name is actually perfectly chosen.

Nice Hat: He wears one while training Fluttershy in the episode "Hurricane Fluttershy".

Opposites Attract: He is more outgoing and direct than Fluttershy. It's possible that he has taught Fluttershy to be more assertive as Fluttershy was even more shy and withdrawn before she found Angel.

Picky Eater: He demands that Fluttershy makes him a special, complicated salad with a cherry on top, and won't eat it otherwise. He gets over it by the end of the episode, when Fluttershy makes him try some normal vegetables, and he loves them.

Pride: Given his behavior and smug facial expressions, this could be seen as a major character flaw of his.

Towards Spike in "Dragonshy". When Spike is charged with taking care of Angel, the rabbit immediately stomps on the dragon's head repeatedly and that's just for starters. It doubles as an inside joke to Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans.

In "Keep Calm and Flutter On" he has a lot of moments like this with Discord, namely trying to get the couch back from him.

He resorts to charades in "Keep Calm and Flutter On" to warn the ponies of a disaster. It takes a couple tries.

Even before that, there was "A Bird in the Hoof", where he tried to explain to Fluttershy that she was running late for Princess Celestia's visit to Ponyville. She didn't quite get the message, at first.

Spoiled Brat: Comes across this way in "Dragonshy" when he throws a temper tantrum over Fluttershy gently urging him to eat slower, or in "Baby Cakes" where she can't babysit for the Cakes because he wants a picnic. Though to be fair, Fluttershy did promise him and it is common for someone to be angry if a promise broken. Even more so in "Putting Your Hoof Down" when he places unreasonable demands on how he wants his salad, and slaps Fluttershy when he doesn't get his way.

Sugar and Ice Personality: Usually what he averages out to. He's spoiled, but in the end he loves Fluttershy and wants nothing more than to help her.

Take That, Scrappy!: An In-Universe Example occurs in "Castle Mane-ia". When Angel is appeared to be crushed by a pile of rocks, Applejack starts jumping on said pile. Angel turns out to be just fine; he never was in the rocks.

Tough Love: He gives to Fluttershy every so often when he tries to help her out.

Tsundere: A Type-A male example. He is firm but fair to Fluttershy at times but he's worse to everyone else, doesn't like being separated from her and, when she needs it, he is sweet and comforting.

Ungrateful Bastard: When Fluttershy wasn't able to buy him the cherry for the recipe he wanted and she only managed to make him the salad without the cherry, he throws the food and her out the house.

Vague Age: Thanks to his general cuteness, it's difficult to gauge Angel's real age. Sometimes he acts like a toddler and other times like an adult. If he is an adult, this could explain his reaction to Fluttershy's coaxing in "Dragonshy" since it would be exasperating for an adult to be told with a woobie voice to eat slowly.

Genki Girl: As Spike soon found out, Winona is very frisky. Just like real Border Collies.

Heroic Dog: She's awesome at herding cattle and can keep up with her owner and given how fast and strong Applejack is (strongest of the mane six and second in land speed only to Cartoon Physics-empowered Pinkie Pie), that's saying something. She doesn't herd rabbits very well though... or at least, she's as competent as her handler.

Loyal Animal Companion: Naturally, being a dog and all. In "Just for Sidekicks", while her high energy and rambunctiousness still cause problems for Spike, she still follows his orders without question.

Meaningful Name: Possibly a coincidence but "Winona" means "first born daughter", a description that fits Applejack.

Nice Girl: She was the first pet to respond to Spike when he called for them.

Out of Focus: Winona seems to have gotten the worst of this out of the pets of the Mane Six. Since Season 4, her appearances have been relegated to cameos.

Perpetual Smiler: This dog is always happy even when under a industrial-strength hair dryer.

Ridiculously Cute Critter: As a Border Collie, it comes with the territory. Even when she's flattened by the wind force of an industrial-sized blowdryer.

Rarity's fluffy Persian cat; often referred to as "Opal" for short. Although Rarity adores her, the feeling doesn't appear to always be entirely mutual.

Audible Sharpness: When Opal decides to deploy her claws in anger, it usually produces the classic knife-unsheathing sound.

Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: While their relationship in the series is rocky at best, Opal is shown to care for Rarity. She tries in vain to remind Rarity to make Twilight's birthday dress in "Sweet and Elite" and misses her in "Just for Sidekicks" when she goes to the Crystal Empire. Also, in issue #23 of the comic, Opal worries about Rarity when she goes missing.

Berserk Button: Do NOT try to steal Opal's toy mouse. It pisses her off so much that even a falcon and an eagle are terrified of her.

Butt Monkey: If Opal is on screen, you can expect something bad or annoying is going to happen to her. She gets soaked with cold water, simply because Rarity needed an excuse to be unable to chat to her friends. Oh, and just two episodes before, she got her toy mouse taken away from her twice at least. And she ended up wearing a sweater, simply because it fell on her. And during the "Art of the Dress" song, Rarity is constantly taking away bits of fabric Opal is lying on, leading to exceptional dizziness.

Cats Are Mean: Played with. She is playful and affectionate towards other ponies (particularly Fluttershy), can hang around other pets without much trouble and is very appreciative of Rarity's dressmaking talents. However, she's not always kind to Rarity or Sweetie Belle, occasionally latching onto the former's flank with her claws and slashing off a hunk of the latter's mane. Her finicky behavior could be explained as annoyance at the rough treatment Rarity doles out to her absentmindedly when "in the zone".

Rainbow Dash leaves her stuck in a tree in an attempt to force Rarity to come outside and see the surprise her friends have prepared for her. Opal may or may not have been in on The Plan.

Again at the start of "May the Best Pet Win!", although this is more disdain for the company of the other pets than anything else.

Characterization Marches On: During her very first appearance in "Suited For Success," she's shown to be an Empathy Pet who cares deeply about Rarity, sharing her joy whenever she's happy and trying to comfort her when she's sad. In every appearance since, she's been (with only a few exceptions) a straight-laced example of Cats Are Mean.

The Chew Toy: The series loves abusing her; mostly at the hooves of her kind-hearted but sometimes absent-minded owner.

In "Suited for Success" she mirrors Rarity's feelings at some points. Examples include purring happily at the first batch of dresses, hissing at the second batch and showing embarrassment at the fashion show. She also showed some affection towards Hoity Toity at the second fashion show.

In "Sweet and Elite", Opal acts to a degree as Rarity's conscience, trying to remind her of her commitment to the dress for Twilight she was supposed to be making when instead Rarity opts for the fancy engagements with Canterlot's elites.

Everyone Has Standards: Even she seems to disapprove of Angel, who causes trouble for his guardians just for fun.

Fat Cat: While it looks like this is the case and would make sense given her Spoiled Brat characterization, "Sweet and Elite" shows when Opal get wet that she's actually really skinny, and is just very fluffy.

Interspecies Romance: With Rainbow Dash's tortoise Tank, though they interacted this way in only one episode, "Just for Sidekicks".

Spoiled Brat: Rarity adores Opal and lavishes luxuries on her, which seems to do nothing for her bad temper and destructive nature.

Super OCD: Her care-list involves meals being served at very specific intervals timed to the minute, and she can't sleep unless the room is at an exact temperature. Though how much of this is Opal's preference and not Rarity projecting her own OCD issues is unclear.

Tsundere: Towards Tank. "Just for Sidekicks" shows her being affectionate towards him and her typical behavior towards others, but only after smacking his head once.

Gummy

"What is life? Is it nothing more than the endless search for a cutie mark? And what is a cutie mark but a constant reminder that we're all only one bugbear attack away from oblivion? And what of the poor gator? Flank forever blank, destined to an existential swim down the river of life to... an unknowable destiny?" (licks eyeball)

A tiny toothless baby alligator who belongs to Pinkie Pie. He tends to bite or snap at anyone or anything near him but never does any damage. The alligator usually spends his time staring into space and doing nothing except when he's blinking, swimming around in the bathtub or playing with a balloon.

The Chew Toy: He goes through a lot in "Just for Sidekicks", and literally becomes this when Winona is seen chewing on him.

The Comically Serious: His peaceful stare is hilarious next to Pinkie Pie. Also, for some reason, he can baa like a sheep.

Cool Pet: While he does less than most of the other ponies' pets, he's an alligator which is exotic enough to be cool. His entertainment value doesn't hurt his coolness factor either.

Empathy Pet: Not to Pinkie, of course, but it has been speculated he's this in a by-proxy sense for Pinkie to her older sister, Maud. For a majority of the series, it seemed that Pinkie had elected to adopt such an emotionless creature either as ironic humor or as a Foil to contrast to her hyper-bubbly personality, but after the episode "Maud Pie", it makes more sense that she keeps him as a reminder of her stoic sister, who she adores more than anypony in the world.

Fish Eyes: Gummy's eyes are rarely focused on the same location, just like real alligators.

Intelligible Unintelligible: Played with. Gummy only blinks, hisses, growls and bites, but Pinkie Pie acts like she can understand what he is saying. It becomes apparent that she's merely guessing. Being a fellow reptile, Spike seems to be able to communicate, but Gummy doesn't give any acknowledgement.

Not So Stoic: Narrows his eyes in disapproval at Angel in "Just for Sidekicks". Not much of a change, but it's enough to get his feelings across. He's also visibly happy when Angel retrieves Spike's gem to stop Spike's stomach from rumbling and giving away their position on the train. Normally these wouldn't count for much, but seeing as Gummy shows no emotion at all most of the time...

Opposites Attract: Gummy has a zen-like calmness about him even when biting in rapid-fire succession while Pinkie Pie is literally bouncing with joy and excitement.

Overly Long Tongue: One trait he shares with Pinkie Pie. His forked tongue is quite long and is the most animated part of him. He can lick his own eyeball with it.

Purple Eyes: A light shade of purple, with an obvious reptilian design.

Suddenly Voiced: Well, mentally voiced. His thoughts are heard in "Slice of Life", in which he waxes philosophical about Cutie Marks.

The Stoic: He just stands there, staring a hole right through the screen...

Straw Nihilist: We finally get to hear what goes on in his head in "Slice of Life", which turns out to be deep philosophical pondering about the meaninglessness of life when you can't get a cutie mark yourself.

Theme Naming: In addition to his Meaningful Name, he also matches his owner in sharing the name of a type of sweet treat: Pinkie Pie and Gummy candy.

Typical Cartoon Animal Colors: Real alligators are not that bright of a green. It's made very obvious in "Pinkie Pride" when a scene cuts to Gummy as a real baby alligator, whose hide is a much duller hue.

Princess Celestia's pet phoenix. She initially appeared unwell, so Fluttershy birdnapped her to make her feel better. Of course, she never actually needed the medical attention on the basis of being a phoenix — so she made herself the most uncooperative patient ever for the hell of it.

The Prankster: Acted like a dramatic, terminally ill soap opera character just to mess with Fluttershy's head. Celestia implies that this isn't the first time Philomena has played a trick on somepony like this.

When she's revived as a healthy phoenix, take a look at her beak. If you know anything about birds, it suddenly makes perfect sense that she'd hork up the seed she was given; that's pretty obviously a raptor's beak. To put it another way, Philomena's a carnivore. It gets better if you know enough about the original Greco-Egyptian Phoenix myth: phoenix would feed only on dew/ the waters of the Nile, and so living off water would be the only creatures never to harm another living thing in their lives, not even a plant, and thus live innocent and so could be re-born (note, the earliest Egyptian phoenix myths might have been based on sightings of Flamingos, who sieve algae out of water, live in burning hot deserts and raise their young in salt-flats conditions that would kill most birds from heat-stroke). So you'd not expect a true Phoenix to eat at all.

Her prankster-ish behavior, though humorously exaggerated, is not too unlike the more mischievous behavior of real life parrots; for instance, her apparent enjoyment in seeing her caretakers getting frustrated.

Always Someone Better: He can find books more efficiently than Spike can and his feathers can provide a spare quill for Twilight while Spike has to search for one. He's also proved far more capable against an aggressive adult dragon. These aspects left Spike feeling rather obsolete.

Characterization Marches On: Owlowiscious gained more of a personality starting from "Just For Sidekicks", becoming more playful and expressive, compared to beforehand where he was mostly a normal stoic owl, but with amplified competence.

Chick Magnet: All of the girls think he's a cute friend... especially when he wears a bowtie given to him by Rarity. Needless to say, Spike doesn't take this well at all.

The Conscience: He's often there to express his disapproval when Spike is not behaving his best.

Fragile Speedster: He flies fast in the dragon cave but one touch from the dragon would have splattered him.

Hypercompetent Sidekick: Spike (who is no slouch at helping out in the library himself) initially feels that his position as No. 1 Assistant is threatened by the owl.

Implied Death Threat: Delivers a non-verbal one to Angel Bunny in "Just for Sidekicks", advancing and looming menacingly over the bunny after he promises to make trouble for Spike; makes sense, considering bunnies often end up as meals for owls and he and Spike are close.

Loyal Animal Companion: To Twilight, and even more so Spike. In "Just For Sidekicks" he is actively trying to make sure the latter's duties go well.

Non-Human Sidekick: Another Non-Pony Sidekick, to Twilight Sparkle. He not only makes a good nighttime study buddy but he can also distract a fully grown dragon and live to tell the tale.

Not So Above It All: He's often shown disapproving of frivolous behavior, but when Rainbow Dash gets distracted during Twilight's lecture on the history of the Wonderbolts, he beatboxes along to Rainbow's stool-tipping.

Only Sane Man: Among the pets because the others are either hyper, troublesome, snobby, or zoned out. In "Just For Sidekicks" he is the one most evidently trying to co operate with Spike.

In "May the Best Pet Win!", Rainbow Dash seeks out a pet to have for her own by holding a contest. While initially unimpressed by a hapless tortoise that Fluttershy insists Rainbow admit as a contestant, Rainbow Dash is won over when he's the only one to stop and help her during the final contest after her wing gets pinned under a huge boulder. As a result, she's inspired to declare the tortoise whom she names "Tank" as the winner and her new pet.

Action Pet: Doesn't seem like it, but when Rainbow is in danger, he lifts a boulder with his freakin' head.

Captain Crash: As seen in "Just for Sidekicks". It happens every five seconds and is how Spike convinces Rainbow Dash to pay for pet sitting.

Cool Shades: Gets a pair of them out of his shell in response to Rainbow Dash saying she wants a cool pet.

Determinator: It's the main trait he has that convinces Rainbow Dash to make Tank her pet. He just wanted so badly to be someone's pet that he never gave up, even when it was obvious that he had no chance of winning.

Empathy Pet: Tank's loyalty is the other part of what impresses Rainbow Dash (the Element of Loyalty). In just for "Just for Sidekicks" he calls her on her Tsundere attitude by licking her cheek.

Exact Words: How he becomes Raindow Dash's pet. She did say whichever pet crossed the line with her would win...

A tiny phoenix chick that hatched at the end of the episode, well after his parents and siblings were driven away from their nest. Spike found his egg and almost smashed it on orders from the leader of a dragon gang, but decided to take it home with him and raise it. A series of pictures in the Cold Open of "Just for Sidekicks" (a pet-centric episode) shows that Spike has since returned Peewee to a pair of phoenixes to be properly raised.

Cool Pet: The coolest of the Mane Cast's pets because he's a phoenix chick.

Egg MacGuffin: His egg was the only one not already hatched at the time of the dragon raid. When ordered to smash it, Spike refused because it reminded him of his own origins. After the ordeal was over, Spike took it home to raise it as his own.

Out of Focus: Only hatched at the very end of his debut episode, and had been Put on a Bus offscreen by the next time he was even referenced in the show.

Put on a Bus: Was returned to his family or a foster family offscreen, as shown in "Just for Sidekicks".

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